From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert ARIBAUD Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:39:12 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] RFC: Let linker create phy array In-Reply-To: <201202071020.45464.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <1328410966-13946-1-git-send-email-troy.kisky@boundarydevices.com> <201202061557.49237.vapier@gentoo.org> <4F303FC4.9010109@aribaud.net> <201202071020.45464.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <4F357260.2050408@aribaud.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Le 07/02/2012 16:20, Mike Frysinger a ?crit : > On Monday 06 February 2012 16:01:56 Albert ARIBAUD wrote: >> Le 06/02/2012 21:57, Mike Frysinger a ?crit : >>>> The would give me compiler warnings for unused variables. How does that >>>> help? >>> >>> does gcc issue warnings ? doesn't seem to do so for me. >> >> Some do, and some will. > > vague ... be nice to have actual examples > >>>> Is there a keep attribute like the linker has for sections? >>> >>> yes, __attribute__((used)) >> >> What is the point in adding a 'static' qualifier and a ((used)) >> attribute, when not adding them in the first place gives the same result? > > to control the visibility I don't understand what you mean with this. Can you please elaborate? > -mike Amicalement, -- Albert.